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Next: Silicate minerals Up: A Database of Optical Previous: Database of Optical Properties . ... If necessary, data have been determined for the different crystallographic axes. ... In the following we give some examples of the data and their possible applications. Table: Summary of data measured in the Jena laboratory, which are currently available from the JPDOC. compound . ... amorph. ... Next: Silicate minerals Up: A Database of Optical Previous: Database of Optical Properties root 2003-03-06 ...

... In some cases where memory space is at a premium, it is possible to tailor the configuration to remove such features as reference clock driver support, debugging support, and so forth. ... The following lines are used in this file: . ... The DEFS_LOCAL line defines global flags that apply to all machines. Ordinarily, the only flags included are the -DDEBUG , which includes the debugging code, and -DREFCLOCK , which includes basic reference clock support. ... D_INCLUDE_BSD_SOURCE . ...

... Globules in the Running Chicken Nebula . ... The eggs from this chicken may form into stars. ... Sun and Prominence . ... Such was the case last week as a large prominence, visible above, highlighted a highly active recent Sun. ... NGC 7331 and Beyond . ... About 50 million light-years distant in the northern constellation Pegasus, NGC 7331 was recognized early on as a spiral nebula and is actually one of the brighter galaxies not included in Charles Messier's famous 18th century catalog. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... Registration . Registration information . ... The Workshop will be held in the Institute of Solid State Physics RAS in a small town called Chernogolovka situated about 50 km from Moscow during 12-18 August 2002 . ... The Registration fee includes a book of abstracts, meeting at the airport and travel from the airport to Chernogolovka and back, a welcome reception, a workshop barbecue, and coffee breaks. ... The Registration fee should be paid at the Workshop registration desk in Chernogolovka. ...

AMPLE 3 тАФ Multi-purpose Software Package for Asteroids and Comets . Dealing with minor bodies of the Solar System one badly needs appropriate software tool to plan and treat observations, to estimate parameters of selected groups, to visualize orbital motion, and more. ... Two variants of the package were developed and put in use for specific tasks, i.e., Ample for Comets and MUSE. ... User may select types, groups and families of minor bodies in one click on appropriate checkbox. ...

XmCCD ----- The programs provided here offer a Linux graphical user interface to astronomical and scientific CCD cameras. ... It is the latest one they offer and the files included allow support for Android and Mac OS X. This distribution of XmCCD includes source code to utilize the SBIG shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface. ... The XmCCD source package includes and will install: SAOimage ds9 xpa cfitsio SAOimage is the primary image display for XmCCD. ...

Communications For Your Astronomy Event . ... For many years two-way radios had a feature called by many names including Motorola's Private Line, GE/Ericsson's "Channel Guard", E.F. Johnson's "Call Guard", RCA's "Quiet Channel." ... Some call it by the most correct name (probably) of Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System (CTCSS). ... Since most radios seem to have adopted a 1 - 38 sub-channel system we at last have a way to express what CTCSS tone we all wish to utilize with a simple number. ... Tone . ...

The 6th INTEGRAL Workshop . The Obscured Universe . Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia . July 2-8, 2006 . Workshop Information: . ... Travel support . ... SAC/LOC . ... The 6th INTEGRAL (International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) Workshop ``The Obscured Universe'' changed its location announced in the first circular and finally will be held at the Space Research Institute (IKI), Moscow, Russia on July 2-8, 2006 (the working days July 3-7). ... INTEGRAL Workshop LOC) . ...

This is a color composite image made by Karen Gloria at Hopkins Observatory using a 6-inch refractor and a 512x512 element CCD detector. ... This is a planetary nebula (see also the Planetary Nebula page on this server). It is relatively small, measuring approximately 8x4 arcminutes. Overall, the surface brightness of the extended ionized gas emission is one of the highest for any PN and therefore this object is easily seen through even small telescopes (including most finders). ...

... Just as magnetic storms are composed of substorms, the substorms themselves seem to be composed of smaller scale events. ... steplike expansion of the auroral bulge (Vorobjev and Rezenov, 1973; Sergeev and Yahnin, 1979; Murphree and Cogger, 1992; Nakamura et al., 1993) . ... 1990) . ... fine structure in the bursts of bremsstrahlung X-rays (Lazutin et al., ... Nakamura, R., T. Oguti, T. Yamamoto, and S. Kokubun, Equatorward and poleward expansion of the auroras during auroral substorms, J. Geophys. ...

Python Reference Introduction These notes contain commands useful for analysing and plotting data using the Python programming language, together with the Numpy and Matplotlib libraries. ... So for example, the plot command (from matplotlib) would be executed by typing pylab.plot(.. ... Pulling out part of an array. ... To pick out only the chosen elements, and put them in a new array, use something like: new_array = my_array[index_array] Plotting We use Matplotlib (included in pylab) to plot. ...

A. Singh Institute of Mathematical Sciences, C.I.T. Chennai, India anupamk18@gmail.com Real elements in algebraic groups Let G be an algebraic group defined over a field k . ... Let G be a connected semisimple algebraic group of adjoint type defined over a perfect field k . ... It follows that if G is connected semisimple of adjoint type, with -1 in its Weyl group, then every semisimple element in G(k ) is strongly real in G(k ). This also shows that any regular element in such a group is real. ...

MATSYM - symbolic matrix processor . ... To use the program you will need a MAT file (liked CIR file: "User manual for CIRSYM program") of your system. ... In first string of MAT file enter any text you want to be the title of your system. ... Starting from string 2 (if is not comments - "*") enter the system element name, incident row and column and, optionally, its value. ... To generate a solution, run MATSYM.exe and enter "system_file_name.CIR" or click on the "ENTER" (in "MAT" case). ...

TOOLS OF TEST GENERATION FOR SATELLITES CONTROL PROGRAMS Andrey Tyugashev, Ekaterina Myasnikova, Elena Sopchenko S.P. Korolyov Samara State Aerospace University (National Reseach University) The paper presents a research in the field of test automation for testing spacecraft control programs. ... Programmers or designers of spacecraft systems write tests manually. ... Tests are carried out by issuing the control actions on the spacecraft and condition monitoring systems parameters of the spacecraft. ...

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Tail Probe is one of the satellites of the INTERBALL program. ... Collection of the orbital elements | ... Flight situation analysis during operations scheduling . ... Two stages of the orbital situation analysis are presented: . ... The satellites motion calculation during the flight situation analysis is based on the orbital elements, determined by the Ballistic center at KIAM RAN. The modified (by backward integration) orbital elements are usedduring the aposteriory situation analysis. ...

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